Sometimes in life you need to describe.
Something that happened and it's been a while .
You use it about someting that is done and dusted.
It's easy to remember it's the Simple
Past, and Everyone knows with regular verbs.
You just put "ED" at the end of the word.
But irregular verbs can be very hard.
Te only chance you have is to learn them by heart, so I FOUND,
YOU SOUGHT, I THREW, YOU CAUGHT, I SOLD, YOU BOUGHT,
YOU PAID, I ATE, YOU DRANK, I GREW, YOU SHRANK, YOU SWAM, I SANK .
You forgave me when I rang.
I thought that we could
So we began...
The others take "WERE"- but you knew, that, of course!
When you need to make a question you use "DID" at the
Start, like: "Did you like this song about the Simple Past?".
It's used when something happened at a certain time .
Or for a longer period that stopped after a while.
It often goes with expressions like "yesterday " or "ago".
The brits say "Learnt' and "dreamt" but Americans don't..., so
YOU SLEPT, I WOKE, YOU HEARD, I SPOKE, I LENT, IT BENT,
IT BROKE, I WROTE, YOU DREW, I RODE, YOU FLEW, YOU STOOD, I RAN.
You forgave me when I rang.
I thougth that we could so we began...
So we began.
So we began.